Problem
Datamax, Inc. is a data broker, a company that compiles large databases of information about consumers. Datamax sells that information, or reports and assessments based on that information, to interested companies for use in marketing, market research, and so forth. One of the products that Datamax provides is a consumer credit assessment, sometimes called a credit score. A consumer credit assessment uses the information that Datamax has collected about a consumer to predict the risk that the consumer will default on a debt obligation, such as a mortgage, car loan, or credit-card bill. Datamax makes these predictions using proprietary algorithms it has developed over its many years of experience in the business. Erin McGathy, a data scientist at Datamax, has given notice that she plans to leave and join a competing data broker. You are a lawyer representing Datamax. Datamax would like to sue to prevent McGathy from joining the competitor, to prevent her from disclosing Datamax's proprietary algorithms. I have not given you enough information to evaluate whether Datamax has a valid trade-secret claim. What information would you need to evaluate that question? List questions to which you would want to know the answers if you were the examiner. For each, give a short one-sentence explanation of why the information would be helpful.